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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Personification
Iamb
Oxymoron
Meter
2. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Ballad
External Conflict
Irony
Rhythm
3. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Legend
Irony
Situational Irony
Mood
4. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Characterization
Anapest
Subject
Legend
5. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Mood
Closed Form
Foot
6. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Epiphany
Subplot
Anapest
Parable
7. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Lyric Poem
1st Person
Dialogue
Symbol
8. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Connotation
Elision
Dactyl
Repetition
9. The selection of words in a literary work.
Catharsis
Oxymoron
Diction
Satire
10. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Connotation
Dialogue
Trochee
Plot
11. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Diction
Parable
Irony
Ballad
12. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Blank Verse
Metaphor
Verbal Irony
Allusion
13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Villanelle
Imagery
Pyrrhic
Elision
14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Understatement
Blank Verse
Denouement
15. A character struggles against some outside force.
Syntax
3rd Person (Omniscient)
External Conflict
Analogy
16. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Elegy
Rhythm
Pyrrhic
Satire
17. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Spondee
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Audience
Mood
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Act
19. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Fiction
Lyric Poem
Synecdoche
Ballad
20. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Myth
Metonymy
Character
Imagery
21. The organizational form of a literary work.
Character
Structure
Protagonist
Free Verse
22. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Synecdoche
Free Verse
Parallelism
Dramatic Irony
23. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Syntax
Personification
Verbal Irony
Rhyme
24. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Syntax
Epic
Myth
25. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Rhythm
Motif
Elision
Character
26. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Blank Verse
3rd Person (Limited)
Rising Action
Author's Purpose
27. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metaphor
Metonymy
Stereotype
Structure
28. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Caesura
Setting
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Aubade
29. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Epigram
Figurative Language
Conflict
30. A poem that tells a story.
Narrative Poem
Parallelism
Stanza
Dialect
31. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Trochee
Paradox
Rhythm
Spondee
32. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Satire
Epic
Rhyme
Recognition
33. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Parallelism
Sonnet
Elegy
Denouement
34. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
External Conflict
Understatement
Motif
Satire
35. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Parody
Catharsis
Rhyme
36. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Ode
Personification
Caesura
Image
37. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Act
Subplot
Persona
Iamb
38. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Epigram
Oxymoron
Climax
Parallelism
39. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Lyric Poem
Suspense
Style
Image
40. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Denotation
Free Verse
Catharsis
Dramatic Irony
41. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Literal Language
Personification
Epiphany
42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Diction
Denouement
Verbal Irony
Syntax
43. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Recognition
Ode
Theme
Comic Relief
44. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Analogy
Parallelism
Conflict
Villanelle
45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Character
Aubade
Parody
Internal Conflict
46. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Dactyl
Parody
Stereotype
Audience
47. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Personification
Analogy
Scenes
Satire
48. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Sestina
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Epigram
Falling Meter
49. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Falling Action
Lyric Poem
Diction
Image
50. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Diction
Enjambment
Epiphany
Allegory